Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ACIC’s Fuller Comments on Workers’ Comp Reform
Feb 12 2004 // Jeffrey Fuller, executive vice president and general counsel for the Association of California Insurance Companies, released the following statement in regarding workers’ compensation reform: In 2003, the legislature...
Flood Outlines Fraud-Fighting Needs at TCIF
Feb 12 2004 // Elliott Flood, vice president of special investigations for Texas Mutual Insurance Company, addressed the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud (TCIF) recently. Flood discussed workers’ compensation fraud, one of...
Hotchkiss Okayed to Form Comp Group for Green Industries
Feb 11 2004 // Hotchkiss Insurance Agency Inc. (HIA), which provides insurance services to the building industry and related trades in the State of Texas, announced that the Texas Department of Insurance has approved its application to...
Texas Man Convicted on Federal Workers’ Comp Charges
Feb 11 2004 // A Dallas jury convicted aviator Michael Lee Harms, of Grapevine, Texas, on federal charges that he defrauded the Office of Workers’ Compensation program. The Associated Press reported that the charges stem from a...
Zenith National Unveils Q4 Numbers
Feb 9 2004 // California-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. reported net income of $20.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2003 compared to a net loss of $7.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2002. Net income for the year ended Dec....
SIIS Seminars to Focus on Workers’ Comp
Feb 9 2004 // “Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Issues,” will be the subject of two upcoming Public Policy Seminars sponsored by Southwestern Insurance Information Service, an industry trade group. According to...
Vermont Looks to Heal Injured Workers’ Comp System
Feb 9 2004 // Workers’ compensation is the fast food of the insurance industry. Nobody notices it very much until there’s a case of indigestion, despite the important role it plays in the economy. As costs continue to...
MEADOWBROOK DEALS OUT $4 MILLION:
Feb 9 2004 // Meadowbrook/TPA Associates, a Massachusetts’ third party administrator of self-insured workers’ compensation programs, is distributing $4,023,874 in dividends to 520 businesses who are members of the...
PENN. WORKERS’ COMP CLAIMS COSTS:
Feb 9 2004 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Pennsylvania continue to grow, according to the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). A study by the Cambridge, Mass-based WCRI found that costs per claim...
Workers’ Comp Second Injury Funds: Going, Going, Gone’
Feb 9 2004 // SIFs are designed to reduce the financial impact of a workers’ compensation claim in the event a worker with a disability, injured on the job, aggravates a pre-existing impairment. Maintaining healthy workers’...
TEXAS COMP COSTS STILL HIGH:
Feb 9 2004 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Texas increased at double-digit rates for the third consecutive year, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. Workers’ comp costs per...
Workers Aren’t the Only Comp Cheats
Feb 9 2004 // Within the insurance industry—and even outside it—workers’ compensation fraud is typically associated with malingering employees who fake an injury in order to collect compensation and some paid...
CWCI STUDY EXAMINES EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE IN WORKERS’ COMP:
Feb 9 2004 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute has issued a new study examining the development and history of evidence-based medicine (EBM) as a tool for assuring appropriate, quality medical care, and its potential...
AUTO INSURANCE, WORKERS’ COMP EMERGE AGAIN AS TOP LEADING LEGAL ISSUE TRENDS:
Feb 9 2004 // Workers’ compensation and automobile insurance laws accounted for nearly 40 percent of the new property/casualty-related statutes enacted by state legislatures last year, according to the fifth annual analysis of...
California Workers’ Comp Costs Per Claim Continue Rapid Growth
Feb 9 2004 // California workers’ compensation costs per claim in California continue to grow rapidly, increasing 15 percent from 2000 through 2001 (as of 2002) and are accelerating, according to a new study from the Cambridge,...
For Workers’ Comp Writers, 2004 May Be as Good as It’s Going to Get
Feb 9 2004 // After years of depressed pricing and a soft workers’ compensation market, prices are on the rise in many parts of the country, a trend analysts predict will continue through at least this year and probably next. The...
Valley Oak Systems Develops Data Interface for the PERI Data Exchange
Feb 6 2004 // Valley Oak Systems, Inc. (VOS), a national provider of claims management software, services and support, has completed development of a new data extraction tool that will streamline the submission of claims data to the...
PCI Reports on Positive Components of Vermont Workers’ Comp Bill
Feb 6 2004 // A bill aimed at reportedly making badly needed changes to the workers’ compensation laws in Vermont has some very positive components, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
IBA West Membership Approves 2004 Resolutions
Feb 5 2004 // Members of the Independent Brokers and Agents of the West approved eight resolutions at the recent 2004 Installation of Officers and Directors and Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. Three of the eight resolutions address the...
Calif. Business Entities Unite Behind Single Ballot Measure to Overhaul Workers’ Comp
Feb 4 2004 // Key business organizations from across the state have joined forces to support a single ballot measure on the issue — the Workers’ Compensation Reform and Accountability Act. The Small Business Action Committee...
